✹ Oracle Card
For this artist multiple assignment, students will design, format, name, and write a short description for a divinatory card as part of the class Oracle Deck. The designs will be sent to a printer and the decks will be packaged as a class when they arrive later in the semester.
✹ Live Art Ritual
Using the idea of the ritual as a framework, students will create, perform, and document a live art piece based on a set of written instructions. These works can be performed live in class during critiques or outside of class and presented as documentation.
✹ Sound Object
In pairs, students will create a sculptural assemblage out of simple battery-powered children’s toys. A key component of this project will be learning the basics of “hacking” electronics, aka circuit-bending, to experiment with changing the audio properties of the toy(s).
✹ Zavitz Gallery Exhibition
Sound Object works will be installed in Zavitz Gallery for a class exhibition from November 9-13, with a live improvisational ensemble performance coinciding with the closing reception on Friday, November 13 (time TBD). Students are responsible for installing and deinstalling on November 8th and 14th, and for documenting the exhibition.
✹ Video “Essay”
Students will research a topic of their choice and present their findings as a 4-minute work of video art primarily comprised of found footage. Video and audio editing techniques such as crossfading, chroma keying, equalizing, and moving text will be used to reinforce the conceptual properties of the work. Students are encouraged to engage with our archives of past student work as applicable.